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* {{spoiler|[[Reality Warper]]}}: His manuscript pages foreshadow various events throughout the game.

* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere]]: As of the end Alan is trapped in the cabin under Cauldron Lake.}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Twofold in ''American Nightmare''. He's much better at working with the plans he's written into being as well as his own [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|instincts]]. However, he's also altered the genre of the story from Surreal Horror to a surreal form of Action, allowing himself access to bigger guns.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Twofold in ''American Nightmare''. He's much better at working with the plans he's written into being as well as his own [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|instincts]]. However, he's also altered the genre of the story from Surreal Horror to a surreal form of Action, allowing himself access to bigger guns.

* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: In ''American Nightmare'', Alan is far more patient with the other survivors than he was during his time in Bright Falls. He notes that, given the sheer insanity of the challenges he faced in the original game and beyond, there's next to nothing that could really get his blood pressure up anymore.

* [[The Un-Smile]]: Alan mentions that he has never been capable of smiling in a convincing way.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Light and noise to combat the darkness, in the form of a flashlight and guns.

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* [[Shout-Out]]: Delivers many references including ''[[Zork]]'' and [[Lord of the Rings]], to name a few.

* [[Tender Tears]]: When saying goodbye to {{spoiler|Alan as he leaves the Well-Lit Room.}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: After arming himself in the general store and taking out a huge Taken with a flare gun.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: After arming himself in the general store and taking out a huge Taken with a flare gun.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: It is never revealed what happened to him and the others {{spoiler|in the Well-Lit Room.}}

** The Alan Wake files reveals that {{spoiler|he's out and about, and was suing the writer of said file for awhile until he was persuaded to stop.}}

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* [[Badass Normal]]: Does remarkably well fending off the Taken. Indeed, he's well-versed with their weaknesses, and is entirely unintimidated with fighting them (so much so that he has absolutely no problems setting up his meetings with Alan to take place in the middle of the night deep in the Taken-infested woods.)

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Alan quickly deduces that he is the kidnapper and repeatedly asks for his gun. Mott simply replies that things are going to be done his way and refuses to let go of his only weapon.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: First seen on the ferry at the beginning.

* [[I Have Your Wife]]

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Villainous Rescue]]: Rescued Alan after he loses his gun.

* {{spoiler|[[You Have Failed Me]]}}: One manuscript page reveals that {{spoiler|Hartman}} was incredibly frustrated that Mott {{spoiler|gave Alan only 2 days to finish his manuscript instead of the full week Alan wanted. He doesn't get killed until the Dark Presence comes along.}}

* {{spoiler|[[You Have Failed Me...]]}}: One manuscript page reveals that {{spoiler|Hartman}} was incredibly frustrated that Mott {{spoiler|gave Alan only 2 days to finish his manuscript instead of the full week Alan wanted. He doesn't get killed until the Dark Presence comes along.}}

== Rusty ==

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* {{spoiler|[[And I Must Scream]]: The ending suggests that he has become the new avatar for The Dark Presence.}}

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: With the Dark Presence and {{spoiler|Dr. Hartman}}, but doesn't acknowledge either of them and only aims to capture Alan Wake.

* [[Cowboy Cop]]: A deconstruction, as he is portrayed as reckless and dangerous in his pursuit of Alan and the townsfolk don't particularly like him.

* [[Inspector Javert]]

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== Odin and Tor Anderson ==

Two brothers who formed a heavy metal band in the '70's on their farm near Cauldron Lake, and renamed themselves as Norse gods to further their image of reborn deities. Now mentally-unstable old men who live in Dr. Hartman's clinic, but occasionally sneak off to raise hell in town or get some moonshine. {{spoiler|Have encountered and fought against the Dark Presence in the past, and were aware of both the Lady of Light and Thomas Zane, and their significance in fighting the Dark Presence.}}

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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Cool Old Guy]]s

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: {{spoiler|Left the primer to defeating the Dark Presence in the lyrics of their songs, and their farm has enough weaponry to arm a mid-sized militia}}

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Tor, at least.

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Odin

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== The Dark Presence ==

The central antagonist of the game, a hostile, aggressive supernatural entity that exists within Cauldron Lake, which creates the Taken. Its power is limited by {{spoiler|what is written or created by the artists around Cauldron Lake}}. The Presence {{spoiler|was originally encountered by Thomas Zane, and convinced him to bring back his deceased love Barbara Jagger - but [[Plot Hole|since Zane didn't specify how she came back]], the Presence took over her body and used her as an avatar.}}

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* [[Author Avatar]]: It makes stories come to life, it directs the flow of the plot, and it ultimately is the reason anything in the game happened. Draw your own conclusions.

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== Thomas Zane ==

A poet and apparently bestselling author who lived in and around Cauldron Lake in the 1960's, and was in love with a woman named Barbara Jagger. {{spoiler|When Barbara drowned, the Dark Presence convinced him to bring her back using his poetry, but he didn't explain how she returned, [[Came Back Wrong|allowing the Dark Presence to put in its own explanation and take over her body.]]}} In response, Thomas Zane {{spoiler|chose to write himself and his actions entirely out of existence, thereby containing the Dark Presence.}} He also wrote in a loophole that allowed {{spoiler|Cynthia Weaver to remember him and what had happened, allowing her to become the Lady of Light.}}

Later on, when Alan Wake arrived at Cauldron Lake, {{spoiler|Alan wrote Thomas Zane into his novel as a guide, taking on the form of a man in a diving/space suit, who would help Alan fight the Dark Presence.}}

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A female mechanic you meet in ''American Nightmare''. She's also into new age stuff.

* {{spoiler|[[Back ~~From~~ the Dead]]: At least twice. She's killed by the Darkness at the end of Act 1 and 2, although she starts remembering her deaths in Act 2, and in 3 she and Alan figure out how to finally prevent it by stopping the Taken from knocking out her garage's fuse box.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Back from the Dead]]: At least twice. She's killed by the Darkness at the end of Act 1 and 2, although she starts remembering her deaths in Act 2, and in 3 she and Alan figure out how to finally prevent it by stopping the Taken from knocking out her garage's fuse box.}}

* [[Dirty Coward]]: She thinks of herself as one, as she ran away when {{spoiler|Mr. Scratch began killing a man to gain access to the Mount Redtooth Observatory and didn't even call the police}}. Alan assures her that this isn't the case.

* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]